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What disappoints me is that people make these claims without taking a few seconds to Google… Academic work I’ve seen suggests it’s basically down to case selec
by new299 5y ago
What disappoints me is that people make these claims without taking a few seconds to Google…
Academic work I’ve seen suggests it’s basically down to case selection:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/468111 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/468111
But what also fascinates me is that people can so easily come up with strong opinions about a culture based on limited information I.e saying “a society that prides itself on honor can act so dishonorably”…
It’s weird, people talk about Japan like it’s an alien planet. Klingons may have been based upon the Japanese but I assure you Japanese life is not very much like Star Trek.
- haecceity 5y agoWe watch anime so we know what we're talking about.
- porknubbins 5y agoMost popular ideas about what Japan is like by people who have never been there are probably wrong, but also Japan is massively from the US in all sorts of interesting ways that are worth talking about.